No but actually I've been really thinking about it and Mihawk just doesn't do shit by halves does he? he's so obsessive.
He doesn't just like red wine it's literally his favorite food
He doesn't just like swords, his is practically his soul made physical. Yoru is so coded in his dna that they literally had to make a replica for his clone.
he isn't just into swordsmanship he literally became the world's best and strongest swordsman
He doesn't just like to duel he's overdone it so much that no one can hold his interest anymore
He didn't just kill marines he was the literal marine hunter.
He doesn't just wait for Zoro at the top he collects every single bounty poster obsessively tracking his rise
He doesn't just let the kids live with him he adopts them, and teaches them how to be stronger. Doesn't let Perona go until he knowns that he can no longer properly guarantee her safety.
He can't just have a garden he has to go full on farmer strawhat and all.
He doesn't just like Shanks he wants to consume him whole he let's the memory of their duel haunt him and even 12 years later he can't fully forgive them. This might be the single most important relationship in his life.
There isn't a moderate bone in his body. He's either making decisions just because or letting them consume him whole.
I bet it's all the Catholicism.
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Local Alchemist needed to be stopped.
My formula of restore fatigue:
Spring salad: lettuce, radish, potato, (optional: apple, orange, watermelon). Unfortunately it has Burden side effect. (if choose orange, you'll get a bonus Shield effect)
Can also side with Ranch dressing: cheese wedge, leek, onion, garlic. And this one has Damage Agility side effect. It can be fix by removing the garlic.
Potato soup: potato, garlic, leek. This recipe has Frost Shield side effect. Perfect choice for a cold weather.
Corn salsa: corn, tomato, onion, garlic. Unfortunately it has Damage Agility side effect, but you can get Detect Life in the process.
Grilled cheese sandwich: bread loaf, cheese wedge, cheese wheel. Unfortunately it has Damage Agility side effect. I should have removed the cheese wedge. Sorry Baurus :(
Classic ham sandwich: bread loaf, cheese wedge, ham, lettuce. Unfortunately this recipe also has Damage Agility side effect, but bonus Fire Shield woohoo!
Gyudon: beef, onion, rice
Mix berries: blackberry, strawberry, (we only have two kinds of berries?) (optional: apple, orange, pear). Actually, don't put apple or pear in it. They will cause Damage Health.
Crabby corn soup: crab, corn, onion. You can add cheese wedge for bonus Fire Shield (and Damage Agility) effect.
Chili con carne: beef (/boar meat /mutton /venison), onion, garlic, tomato. Side effect is Detect Life. (Beef flavor will grant you Shield effect. Unfortunately Boar meat will have burden side effect and Venison is Damage Health)
Pumpkin pie: pumpkin, sweetcake (/flour /sweetroll). Unfortunately both flour and sweetroll has Damage Personality side effect
Carrot cake: carrot, sweet cakes
Strawberry cheesecake: strawberry, cheese wedge, flour (/sweetcake /sweetroll). The flour version has Reflect Damage side effect. I highly recommend it.
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Question for my fellow fanfic writers - any fandom, don’t matter -
Have you ever made an OC for whatever project you’re working on only to suddenly be blindsided with a very specific dilemma??
Said dilemma: the character for whatever reason resonates with you so much the moment you put their existence onto paper the first time that you’re now questioning if you should even include them in a fanfiction at all? Like you almost feel like they should be an original character in their own original story.
Anyone? Anyone at all? *having a slight existential crisis at the laundromat*
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Blood. He can smell it everywhere. Acrid and haunting. It's not his own. It's not Ultimo's, not Kei's, nor Vice's.
It's the blood of all the innocent people, amongst the smell of broken wood, kicked up rubble and concrete. Rock dust and grit and blood, making a horrific wet concrete smell.
Ultimo, in his horrific glory, stands in it all. His ICON; a paragon of purity. Of purity that suffers no imperfection. Untarnished white and gold and red. Sunken eyes rapidly jump from place to place. Hypervigilant and cruel. Fans become blades, their edges razor-sharp to cut through the tarnished, evil masses.
Vice now stands his opposite. His edges sharp... to defend himself. Claws at the ready and stance tense. His ICON appears far more armored, like a skeletal oni samurai. Plated armor covers himself and he wields a great kanabō. He is very much the same in appearance as he ever was, but far more prepared.
There is no silence as Ultimo's eyes fall on him... and freeze. The sounds around them echo pain and collapsing buildings. But Vice is clean of debris, and blood rolls off of Ultimo's armor, as if shedding himself, unconsciously, of the blame.
"Ultimo, this has to end." Yamato announces, as Vice is constantly scanning for movement and the telltale surge of the time-altering noh starting to charge.
"..." There's just silence.
"There's no need to fight. You know we're stronger. We have every noh at our command. You won't win."
Slowly, Ultimo turns on a heel to face them.
"We're going to stop everything. We're going to beat Dunstan and end all of this. Everything. For..." The next word dies on his tongue.
"For good?" Ultimo's sweet, child-like voice makes him flinch as he finishes the sentence, "Come now, Yamato, don't look like that." His fans raise up and sweep out, to the scene around them, "We killed just as many nobles, all to end a tyranny." His head slowly tilts to the side. "A tyranny that managed to continue... regardless of everything we did. Because evil still exists. Evil that you've sided with... I should have known, ever since you took in Lady Gekko."
"Evil will always exist." Yamato tenses up as Ultimo's hands start to lower. Vice warns him of a surge. They begin to gather energy as well, trying to boost their chances of winning what's about to happen.
Ultimo's pupils suddenly constrict, and there's little to describe the next thing that happens. A rapid stop and go as time flashes back and forth. As their place in space-time is warped, changed, and threatens to break something far more precious than anything else.
They draw the attention of something unseen...
But in the midst of the battle, four people disappear. A daughter and her douji taken by her father... and the two who tried to stop it who were taken as well.
Yamato tries, through the battle, to talk to Kei, to make him see the pain he's put everyone through, his own niece who he took in to protect.
His niece who's yelling.
Yelling?
Yamato turns. He sees Kia on a roof with Rage, screaming to get his attention.
"Dunstan has Mizho and Sayama!!!"
...Which means Paresse and Regula, too.
Paresse.
Dunstan has Paresse.
Panic surges from Yamato and he stops holding back. Ultimo charges him a final time, Crane Sword drawn and ready to spear them... and Yamato spins Vice around with Rage's speed and the kanabō collides with Ultimo's skull. A resounding finality cracks through the air. Robot and master crumple to the ground, unmoving.
It truly had been an uneven fight. If he hadn't held back, it would be over already. Dunstan wouldn't have been able to take them. He'll, he never should have started this fight in the first place. Vice had been right.
"We move!" Yamato yells, "Now!!"
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